https://www.londonlive.co.uk/news/2018-04-12/cray-wanderers
Cray Wanderers FC is the oldest football club in London and one of the oldest in the country.
In 2010 the club played a celebratory tournament with the two other "old" clubs, Sheffield FC and Hallam FC.
The land they are hoping to develop has been an eyesore for years and the club committee, players and supporters hope to provide a stadium at the exotically named, Flamingo Park in St Paul's, Cray, with community facilities, over 40 affordable houses for local inhabitants and a development in the Green Belt that abides by the "planning rules" and an Eco-friendly venture. They hope to move in 2021.
Cray Wanderers FC was founded in 1860 by some local inhabitants in the Cray area and railway workers building a railway viaduct on the line into London centre. The club developed through lunch time kick abouts and formalised by as St Mary Cray with St Paul's, taking workers from the local paper works that were sited on the River Cray. In 1887 the club changed its name to Cray Wanderers FC.
Having been homeless from 1973 and ground sharing (presently at Bromley), the "Chocolates", as they were first known due to their choice of chocolate playing colours, used to change in the Barnard Coffee Tavern, a half a mile from the ground.
Their latest adventure is to join up with SE Dons, a grass roots club, which will firstly, find a home for the Dons and then provide a youthful back ground to the "senior club".Cray Wanderers played in the first season of the FA Amateur Cup rounds but were unsuccessful in a competition won by the legendary Old Carthusians, old boys of Charterhouse School. They turned professional in 1895 till 1907 and became a nursery club for the Woolwich Arsenal. In 1894 they became founder members of the Kent League and in 1895 changed their colours from their original chocolate to amber and black. They have been to the quarter-finals of the FA Vase twice.
In 2004-5 the club joined the Isthmian League Div One and has made progress ever since-see link.
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